Khalil Mack Quotes

You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

I think of myself as a great player, but the fans have to decide whether that's true.

I feel like I am a good player.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Every time I step on the court, I know I can beat my opponent.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

I have always seen myself as a Real Madrid goalkeeper and have never doubted my ability.

I looked at my stats, and I was like, 'I'm too big and too athletic to average three rebounds a game.'

When you are a player, you don't really understand the criticism when you feel like you played pretty well.

I'm nowhere near Barry Sanders. But that doesn't take anything away from my game.

I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.